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Apr 18, 2014 5:40 AM in response to crocco69by tug!,it has just repaired some permissions, perfectly normal, no need to be concerned there.
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Apr 18, 2014 5:52 AM in response to crocco69by rkaufmann87,Please read Apple's Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore
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Apr 20, 2014 8:53 AM in response to tug!by rpoland,If it was repaired, then WHY does it keep occuring?
It is ALSO NOT listed in the
Apple's Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore
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Apr 20, 2014 10:35 AM in response to rpolandby Klaus1,As long as the report ends up with 'Permissions repair complete' then, as far as permissions go, you are fine. You can ignore the various statements in the report:
Permissions you can ignore on 10.5 onwards:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448
Using 'should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r--' as an example, you will see the that the permissions are not changed, but the | indicates a different location. This is because an update to Leopard onwards changed the location of a number of system components.
Poster rccharles has provided this description of what it all means:
drwxrwxrwx
d = directory
r = readw = write
x = executeable programdrwxrwxrwx
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| | all other users not in first two types
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| group
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owner
a little more infoBefore the user had read & write. A member of the group had read.
After, only the user had read & write.